Jan Magiera

Jan Magiera

Jan Magiera (born September 30, 1938 in Jelnia , Poland ) is a former Polish cyclist . When he competed, Magiera weighed 77 kilograms and was 178 centimeters tall.

Athletic career

Magiera was a member of the Cracovii Wzrost sports club. He began his cycling career with track cycling and rode there for almost two decades (1953–1971) as successfully as on the road.

He was a two-time Olympian. 1964 in Tokyo and 1968 in Mexico .

Palmarès

year	success		run
1963	3.	4th stage, part a	Tour of Poland
	3.	7th stage, part a
1964	winner	1st stage	Tour of Poland
	winner	in 4th stage
	2.	5th stage
	3.	Overall rating
	44.		Olympic Games , street
1965	3.	10th stage, part b	Peace ride
1966	2.	Overall rating	Tour of Poland
	winner	5th stage
	2.	9th stage
	2.	9th stage	Peace ride
	winner	15th stage
1967	2.	2nd stage	Peace ride
	2.	8th stage
	3.	Overall rating
1968	winner	14th stage, part a	Peace ride
	3.	in overall rating
	6th		Olympic Games , 100 km team time trial
1969	3.	12th stage	Tour of Poland
	2.	6th stage
	winner	10th stage
	3.	3rd stage, part a	Peace ride
	winner	8th stage, part a
	2.	9th stage
1970	winner	10th stage	Milk Race
	2.	12th stage
	winner		National Championship Poland, Road, Individual Time Trial
1971	2.		National Championship Poland, Road, Individual Time Trial
1972	2.	2nd stage	Tour of Poland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PIS (Ed.): XX. Wyscig Pokoju Warszawa-Berlin-Praha. Program . Warsaw 1967, p. 8 (Polish).
2. ↑ memoire-du-cyclisme

Web links

• Jan Magiera in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jan Magiera in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )